The National Gender and Equality Commission (NGEC) and the State Department for Gender Affairs and Affirmative Action opened a two-day training on ending gender-based violence and femicide on 8 September 2026.
The high-level stakeholders’ training takes the findings and recommendations of the Presidential Technical Working Group on GBV, including Femicide, and works them into action at county level.
Stakeholders are drawing up a localised County Action Plan covering prevention, public awareness, accessible reporting, legal accountability, stronger referral pathways, and survivor support and safe shelter.
POLICY TO PRACTICE
For the Commission, the training is about moving from policy to practice, and about strengthening the systems that link prevention, reporting, redress, protection and recovery.
Women, girls, persons with disabilities, children and other vulnerable groups cannot be left at the margins of those systems, the Commission said.
THE TEST AHEAD
Kenya has made substantial commitments on gender-based violence and femicide. What remains, in the Commission’s assessment, is implementation: policies with resources behind them, institutions that work together, referrals that do not break, dignity for survivors, and accountability that is not lost along the way.Coordinated, survivor-centred responses at county level carry a growing share of the national effort, and the training is directed at that shift.
The Commission will continue working with national and county institutions, communities and partners to turn commitments into protection that can be measured.
